Patents by Inventor Vidar Vikjord

Vidar Vikjord has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11657060
    Abstract: An analysis application utilizes interactivity signals to generate relationships and promote content. One or more interactivity applications, such as a social networking application, are queried to retrieve interactivity signals. Interactivity signals include an interaction pattern that indicates a relationship between a user and relations of the user. A relationship graph is constructed based on the interactivity signals. Content associated with a user is promoted based on the relationship graph. A weight of the interactivity signals is adjusted to improve a ranking of the relationship graph and a ranking of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Hakon Brugard, Rune Devik, Stein Arild Jakobsen, Roger Hansen, Michael Taylor, Magnus Mortensen, Bjornstein Lilleby, Fredrik Holm, Erlend Jensen, Torbjorn Helvik, Vidar Vikjord
  • Patent number: 11620299
    Abstract: An analysis application utilizes interactivity signals to generate relationships and promote content. One or more interactivity applications, such as a social networking application, are queried to retrieve interactivity signals. Interactivity signals include an interaction pattern that indicates a relationship between a user and relations of the user. A relationship graph is constructed based on the interactivity signals. Content associated with a user is promoted based on the relationship graph. A weight of the interactivity signals is adjusted to improve a ranking of the relationship graph and a ranking of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Hakon Brugard, Rune Devik, Stein Arild Jakobsen, Roger Hansen, Michael Taylor, Magnus Mortensen, Bjornstein Lilleby, Fredrik Holm, Erlend Jensen, Torbjorn Helvik, Vidar Vikjord
  • Patent number: 11586642
    Abstract: Generating and providing a content feed to a user that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to the user including content that is determined to be “distant” to the user is provided. Explicit user actions are used to discover peers who are not colleagues of the user (e.g., peers with whom the user does not share a close organizational relationship, peers with whom the user does not regularly communicate, etc.), but who the user indicates an interest in via his/her actions. These peers are categorized as elevated peers of the user, and information items associated with and trending around the elevated peers are surfaced to the user in a content feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Michael James Taylor, Vishwa Vinay, Vidar Vikjord, Viral Shah, Ashok Kuppusamy, Bjørnstein Lilleby
  • Publication number: 20210263917
    Abstract: Generating and providing a content feed to a user that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to the user including content that is determined to be “distant” to the user is provided. Explicit user actions are used to discover peers who are not colleagues of the user (e.g., peers with whom the user does not share a close organizational relationship, peers with whom the user does not regularly communicate, etc.), but who the user indicates an interest in via his/her actions. These peers are categorized as elevated peers of the user, and information items associated with and trending around the elevated peers are surfaced to the user in a content feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Torbjørn HELVIK, Michael James TAYLOR, Vishwa VINAY, Vidar VIKJORD, Viral SHAH, Ashok KUPPUSAMY, Bjørnstein LILLEBY
  • Patent number: 11030208
    Abstract: Generating and providing a content feed to a user that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to the user including content that is determined to be “distant” to the user is provided. Explicit user actions are used to discover peers who are not colleagues of the user (e.g., peers with whom the user does not share a close organizational relationship, peers with whom the user does not regularly communicate, etc.), but who the user indicates an interest in via his/her actions. These peers are categorized as elevated peers of the user, and information items associated with and trending around the elevated peers are surfaced to the user in a content feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Michael James Taylor, Vishwa Vinay, Vidar Vikjord, Viral Shah, Ashok Kuppusamy, Bjørnstein Lilleby
  • Publication number: 20200358864
    Abstract: An information feed is provided that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to a user. The information feed may be updated with new information items each time the feed is accessed by the user. Information not surfaced to the user in the feed may be accessed by the user via one or more other means, but only those items having a sufficient importance to the user are surfaced in the feed. Items in the feed are sorted by order of importance or relevance to the user. When new items are added to the feed, they are sorted relative to each other, but are displayed separately from previous groupings of items added to the feed. Items may be reposted to different positions in the feed, and items may be manually removed from the feed if desired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Johan Idivuoma, Vidar Vikjord, Joshua Stickler, Bjørnstein Lilleby
  • Patent number: 10757201
    Abstract: An information feed is provided that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to a user. The information feed may be updated with new information items each time the feed is accessed by the user. Information not surfaced to the user in the feed may be accessed by the user via one or more other means, but only those items having a sufficient importance to the user are surfaced in the feed. Items in the feed are sorted by order of importance or relevance to the user. When new items are added to the feed, they are sorted relative to each other, but are displayed separately from previous groupings of items added to the feed. Items may be reposted to different positions in the feed, and items may be manually removed from the feed if desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Johan Idivuoma, Vidar Vikjord, Joshua Stickler, Bjørnstein Lilleby
  • Publication number: 20180349452
    Abstract: Generating and providing a content feed to a user that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to the user including content that is determined to be “distant” to the user is provided. Explicit user actions are used to discover peers who are not colleagues of the user (e.g., peers with whom the user does not share a close organizational relationship, peers with whom the user does not regularly communicate, etc.), but who the user indicates an interest in via his/her actions. These peers are categorized as elevated peers of the user, and information items associated with and trending around the elevated peers are surfaced to the user in a content feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Michael James Taylor, Vishwa Vinay, Vidar Vikjord, Viral Shah, Ashok Kuppusamy, Bjørnstein Lilleby
  • Patent number: 10061826
    Abstract: Generating and providing a content feed to a user that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to the user including content that is determined to be “distant” to the user is provided. Explicit user actions are used to discover peers who are not colleagues of the user (e.g., peers with whom the user does not share a close organizational relationship, peers with whom the user does not regularly communicate, etc.), but who the user indicates an interest in via his/her actions. These peers are categorized as elevated peers of the user, and information items associated with and trending around the elevated peers are surfaced to the user in a content feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.
    Inventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Michael James Taylor, Vishwa Vinay, Vidar Vikjord, Viral Shah, Ashok Kuppusamy, Bjørnstein Lilleby, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20170269798
    Abstract: Relevant content can be surfaced via user interfaces presented via devices based at least partly on determining the relevant content from interactions between user(s), container(s), and/or container element(s). Techniques described herein include accessing data associated with interactions between a user and content (e.g., containers and container elements) associated with a collaborative computing environment. Based at least partly on the data, relationships between the user, container(s), and/or container element(s), and weights corresponding to individual relationships of the relationships can be determined. Techniques described herein include determining at least a portion of the content that is relevant to the user based at least partly on the weights and generating a content page associated with the collaborative computing environment configured with functionality to surface at least the portion of the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Dmitriy Meyerzon, David M. Cohen, Bjornstein Lilleby, Aninda Ray, Yauhen Shnitko, Vidya Srinivasan, Michael Taylor, Vidar Vikjord, Nikita Voronkov
  • Publication number: 20160070764
    Abstract: Generating and providing a content feed to a user that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to the user including content that is determined to be “distant” to the user is provided. Explicit user actions are used to discover peers who are not colleagues of the user (e.g., peers with whom the user does not share a close organizational relationship, peers with whom the user does not regularly communicate, etc.), but who the user indicates an interest in via his/her actions. These peers are categorized as elevated peers of the user, and information items associated with and trending around the elevated peers are surfaced to the user in a content feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.
    Inventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Michael James Taylor, Vishwa Vinay, Vidar Vikjord, Viral Shah, Ashok Kuppusamy, Bjørnstein Lilleby, JR.
  • Publication number: 20150249715
    Abstract: An information feed is provided that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to a user. The information feed may be updated with new information items each time the feed is accessed by the user. Information not surfaced to the user in the feed may be accessed by the user via one or more other means, but only those items having a sufficient importance to the user are surfaced in the feed. Items in the feed are sorted by order of importance or relevance to the user. When new items are added to the feed, they are sorted relative to each other, but are displayed separately from previous groupings of items added to the feed. Items may be reposted to different positions in the feed, and items may be manually removed from the feed if desired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2014
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Johan Idivuoma, Vidar Vikjord, Joshua Stickler, Bjørnstein Lilleby
  • Publication number: 20150242473
    Abstract: An analysis application utilizes interactivity signals to generate relationships and promote content. One or more interactivity applications, such as a social networking application, are queried to retrieve interactivity signals. Interactivity signals include an interaction pattern that indicates a relationship between a user and relations of the user. A relationship graph is constructed based on the interactivity signals. Content associated with a user is promoted based on the relationship graph. A weight of the interactivity signals is adjusted to improve a ranking of the relationship graph and a ranking of the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Hakon Brugard, Rune Devik, Stein Arild Jakobsen, Roger Hansen, Michael Taylor, Magnus Mortensen, Bjornstein Lilleby, Fredrik Holm, Erlend Jensen, Torbjorn Helvik, Vidar Vikjord